'''1776 August 24.''' "Pd. dinner at falls of Schuylkill 10/."<ref> Ibid 423.</ref> ''The Falls of the Schuylkill River, a popular site for a day's outing five miles above Philadelphia, were submerged by the building of the Fairmount Dam in 1821. Jefferson evidently took advantage of the excellent fishing at the Falls.<ref>Edwin Iwanicki, "The Villlage of Falls of Schuylkill," ''Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography'' XCI [1967], 326-41.</ref>

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'''1776 August 24.''' "Pd. dinner at falls of Schuylkill 10/."<ref>Ibid. The Falls of the Schuylkill River, a popular site for a day's outing five miles above [[Philadelphia]], were submerged by the building of the Fairmount Dam in 1821. Jefferson evidently took advantage of the excellent fishing at the Falls. See Edwin Iwanicki, "The Villlage of Falls of Schuylkill," ''Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography'' XCI [1967], 326-41.</ref>

'''1777 May 27.''' "Pd. B. Calvert for fishing rods 2/."<ref>Ibid 447. "B. Calvert" is Benjamin Colvard, Jr., who worked under Joseph Neilson as an apprentice carpenter at Monticello in 1778-1779.</ref>

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'''1777 May 27.''' "Pd. B. Calvert for fishing rods 2/."<ref>Ibid, 1:447. "B. Calvert" is Benjamin Colvard, Jr., who worked under Joseph Neilson as an apprentice carpenter at Monticello in 1778-1779.</ref>

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'''1780 July 4.''' "Pd. for fish hooks 36/."<ref>

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'''1780 July 4.''' "Pd. for fish hooks 36/."<ref>Ibid 1:498.</ref>

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'''1791 May 31.''' "An abundance of speckled trout, salmon trout, bass and other fish with which [Lake George] is stored, have added to our other amusements the sport of taking them."<ref>Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [[Short Title List|''PTJ'']] 20:464.</ref>

Footnotes

↑ Ibid. The Falls of the Schuylkill River, a popular site for a day's outing five miles above Philadelphia, were submerged by the building of the Fairmount Dam in 1821. Jefferson evidently took advantage of the excellent fishing at the Falls. See Edwin Iwanicki, "The Villlage of Falls of Schuylkill," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography XCI [1967], 326-41.